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When Randall Rothenberg’s book, Where The Suckers Moon: An Advertising Story, became available from Knopf on October 25, 1994, I purchased the book and read every word. Because it’s a great story about a great ad agency, told by a great journalist who had unprecedented access to the players. Since then, Rothenberg has gone on […]

Arlington, Virginia-based New Media Strategies is getting some positive press from Ad Age, thanks to a novel buy out strategy that awards not just the owners of the agency but the employees, as well. New Media Strategies was acquired by Meredith Corp. back in 2007. When that deal closed, CEO Pete Snyder and fellow founders […]

Emily Steel of The Wall Street Journal reports that Meredith, the Des Moines-based lifestyle publisher, has been busy eating Madison Avenue’s lunch. According to the article Meredith Integrated Marketing has created custom publishing, email, social media and mobile campaigns for major marketers, including Kraft Foods, Chrysler and Wells Fargo. If you go to the company’s […]

When it comes to content marketing, Wunderman UK is all in. According to Campaign, the agency that invented the 1-800 toll-free number for businesses is now organizing its storytelling talent for better visibility, and profitability. Wunderman’s new content studio will consist of 25 content strategists, editors, writers, creatives and analysts. The move is part of […]

Paid content is one of my favorite topics, as our regular reader know. It’s a favorite topic because it’s my life. I get paid to create content (by brands, not newspapers), and I want to help my friends and colleagues get paid for their work too. That’s one reason I like media companies entering in […]

Inide agencies, especially indie agencies with a strong digital practice, are hot properties. Holding company execs circle, but the news here is that increasingly these holding companies are media companies. For instance, Hearst bought the digital marketing firm iCrossing for $325 million in 2010, while Meredith has acquired a series of agencies including O’Grady Meyers […]

Did you happen to notice how fast Visa brought new commercials (featuring new Gold Medal winners) to the airwaves during the London games? In many cases the athlete’s heroic story (as told in 30 seconds by a global credit card purveyor) appeared on NBC stations within minutes of the medal round competition. Here, take a […]

Content, content, content…it’s all anyone’s talking about. Myself included. To wit, we have news from Austin about Greatest Common Factory, a content creation agency founded by three former GSD&M staffers. At its core GCF believes advertising has moved from a media driven business to a content driven one. The 80/20 rule of media to production […]